Secure LDAP (LDAPS) Support For LDAPS support, follow these steps: Note:The procedure in "Configuring Apache for Authenticating with LDAP Service" must be followed before executing the following steps to configure LDAPS: Copy the CA certificate from the LDAP server and place it in a directory other than /root. /opt/certs/<CA Certificate> Give permissions for the directory which has the CA certificate. chmod -R 777 /opt/certs Modify the/etc/hosts file with a fully qualified DNS. "<DNS-IP> <Host Name> <Fully Qualified Host Name>" Modify /etc/httpd/conf.d/pld.conf to have the following line after CustomLog: LDAPTrustedGlobalCert CA_BASE64 </opt/certs/<CA Certificate> Modify the "AuthLDAPURL" URL from ldap to ldaps. AuthLDAPURL "ldaps://<Host Name>/dc=oracle,dc=com?uid,employeeType,gecos?one"